Beloved

Top 10 Episodes! #6! Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything

Top 10 Episodes! #6! Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything

This one message would be what I can honestly tell you is THE message that has altered so many lives in our work around the world. We hope that you’ll be greatly blessed and encouraged by this. Goodness…what days these are—that we simply need the good news! This, dear friends is the good news we can savor!

Episode 76 -A Covid Christmas Blessing

Christmas will be different this year - the lights, the festivities… they've all been canceled. Our plans, our gatherings… it's all going to be different. And yet there's something deep in this advent, in this pandemic, that is for us to understand.

Grab a cup of warm, soothing tea and join Steve as he takes the story of Mary and Joseph and how to live in the blessing of what might be called a Covid Christmas Blessing.

Episode 75 - The TRUE State of Your Soul

Episode 75 - The TRUE State of Your Soul

Steve sits down with Peter Ivey and together they talk about The State of the Soul---and how to use the brand new tool they developed for you.

Today’s episode is far more than a podcast: it's the distillation of what Steve and Peter both know about the soul, and how to try to get our hands around our souls--if that is even possible.

Episode 74 - Recharging Your Inner Battery: Soul Care in Depleting Times

Episode 74 - Recharging Your Inner Battery: Soul Care in Depleting Times

Today’s message is vital and central. It's about how to recharge your inner batteries. In so many ways, it's urgent to just listen and reflect upon this conversation. That's why I'm asking you to just stop what you're doing and schedule a time right now to just listen.

Episode 72 - Love is the Antidote for Anxiety

Episode 72 - Love is the Antidote for Anxiety

How do you experience the Love of God? Not just know about the Love of God, but truly experience it?

For many of us, unlearning how we experience love may be necessary to begin understanding the true love of God. And when you experience this love, it can be the greatest antidote to anxiety, worry, and fear.

Episode 68 - Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything

Episode 68 - Belovedness: The Core Truth that Changes Everything

This one message would be what I can honestly tell you is THE message that has altered so many lives in our work around the world. We hope that you’ll be greatly blessed and encouraged by this. Goodness…what days these are—that we simply need the good news! This, dear friends is the good news we can savor!

"Best of" Conversations: Episode 13 - Becoming the Beloved

In our heads, we know that being is more important than doing. But the reality of our day-to-day life is that we easily drift into a performance-based relationship with God and others. Jesus modeled a different way to live. In today’s episode, we learn how Jesus lived a life that began with acceptance by his Heavenly Father and ended by achieving more than any human being ever has. He has shown us the way---living as the beloved of God.

Episode 32 - You are the Beloved of God

Episode 32 - You are the Beloved of God

What does hiking the Pacific Trail have to do with being the beloved of God? Only our co-host Joe Chambers could answer that question in such a unique and personal way. Listen in as Joe weaves his own personal stories from the trail with the four words that Henri Nouwen talks about in his timeless classic “The Life of the Beloved.”

Episode 13 - Becoming the Beloved

Episode 13 - Becoming the Beloved

In our heads, we know that being is more important than doing. But the reality of our day-to-day life is that we easily drift into a performance-based relationship with God and others. Jesus modeled a different way to live. In today’s episode, we learn how Jesus lived a life that began with acceptance by his Heavenly Father and ended by achieving more than any human being ever has. He has shown us the way---living as the beloved of God.

Episode 10 - Exploring Dignity of the Soul

Episode 10 - Exploring Dignity of the Soul

In this episode, Steve speaks with Mel Lawrenz, former lead pastor of Elmwood Church and the author of the book “Time of Dignity.” Together they delve into the question “How do you define Dignity?”  In the process they discuss inherent worth and the assaults that are eroding our basic sense of dignity and worth: illness, aging, bureaucracy, technology, and busyness. It’s a discussion that will challenge you to think about the universal truth of the Genesis account, how that truth is violated all the time in our culture, and the ultimate truth that all people matter.